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My wardrobe is very boring. If I find a shirt I like, I'll just go buy every color and call it a couple years. I literally have like 13 of the exact same henley short sleeve shirt. I do have some custom made short-sleeve button downs, mainly because I like to get them longer than average because my proportions are off as I'm a 5'11" man who curiously has a 29" inseam.

Thrift store MLB jerseys are the best, because you are wearing another man's shirt with a third man's name on it.

I have a Ringette jersey with the name "Kimmie" on it. Though I'm guessing the original owner actually was Kimmie as I'm not sure Ringette is big enough to have fans buying replica jerseys. So I guess that's just wearing a woman's shirt.

I love Animal House, but then again, I was a (hell of a lot more recent than 1962) Dartmouth SAE, though I'm pretty sure the uptight house was not actually based on SAE but was more likely based on another fraternity.

Ugh, SAE is all that people want to talk about now when the subject of Dartmouth comes up. I guess it's better than rehashing that story about the two professors those two teenagers murdered like a decade ago.

Such is the downside of a school that the smart set has heard of but where not a damn thing happens generally.

Ugh, SAE is all that people want to talk about now when the subject of Dartmouth comes up. I guess it's better than rehashing that story about the two professors those two teenagers murdered like a decade ago.

Us alums had a good laugh about that RS story. We were a fine house back in my day - in the preppy muddle with Psi U - better than I think we are now, but lord knows, we weren't bedding chicks two at a time and bumping coke off their inner thighs or whatever. Such a preposterous story.

I ended up staying at a B&B at the same time as a senior dean a little while after the story was published, and over breakfast I expressed my, how to say, disbelief. He told me that the College's view was that the whistleblower was a pathological liar.

FWIW, I was a geology major when the Zantops were murdered. It was awful. Half was a good man.

FWIW, I was a geology major when the Zantops were murdered. It was awful. Half was a good man.

Met him once at a College function, don't recall the occassion; knew several students who had one or the other for classes. No one there had an ill word to say about either Half or Suzanne. Truly awful, and got a lot more press attention than it would have had it happened at, say, Penn, where it'd be "someone else got murdered in West Philly last night." (University City's a little better than it used to be, but it's still West Philly.)

It's likely very different now, but I will say that in those days that was a tough campus to discover that you're gay. (Granted, the BF is a BYU alumnus and he has me beat hands down in that department.) The Greek system kind of dominated things and the result was tough on those of us who weren't fraternity types.

Also, I RTFA and those who are billing it as the confession of a shopaholic are wrong on both points. I would say of the "confessions" in the article, spending a lot of money on leather clothes is one of the least shocking. This is a guy who has seriously repressed gender/sexuality issues that he needs to work through. He is a deeply insecure #######.

But also, calling it a confession is a misnomer - and Bissinger seems to get this. He is still highly defensive of his shopping and other habits and doesn't think it has had any negative consequences. He can't help but get in his digs at us boring white guys who shop at J. Crew and Brooks Brothers. He lacks the self awareness to realize that all of the fashion people complimenting his style are salespeople whose kids he is putting through college with his purchases.

My wardrobe is very boring. If I find a shirt I like, I'll just go buy every color and call it a couple years.

Dan, I am similar in many ways. I am also a skinny 5'11 guy with somewhat awkward proportions so when I find something that fits me well I tend to buy it in a bunch of different colors (some companies make this very easy with their online stores, some don't). Having clothes that fit well is much more important than having expensive/flashy clothing. This seems to be a lesson that Bissinger's Gucci stylist failed to teach him.

Woo, it came back around! I'm a big fan of the Gillis style of quick cuts and multiple layered songs at a time, as opposed to a straight mashup. Trying to figure out which songs are being used and how is fun. There are some 2 song mashups that work great, though. Duke Ellington and Beyonce for example. Or Call Me Maybe and Head Like a Hole. But my absolute favorite is Biggie and Miley, Party and ######## in the USA.

Gucci men's clothing best represents who I want to be and have become—rocker, edgy, tight, bad boy, hip, stylish, flamboyant, unafraid, raging against the conformity that submerges us into boredom and blandness and the sexless saggy sackcloths that most men walk around in like zombies without the cinematic excitement of engorging flesh.

Having clothes that fit well is much more important than having expensive/flashy clothing. This seems to be a lesson that Bissinger's Gucci stylist failed to teach him.

Very true, but based on those photos, Bissinger is short, pudgy, and somewhat pear-shaped; not great raw material to work with. Even the best stylist can't do much with a short, fat guy who insists on wearing tight leather.

I would say of the "confessions" in the article, spending a lot of money on leather clothes is one of the least shocking. This is a guy who has seriously repressed gender/sexuality issues that he needs to work through. He is a deeply insecure #######.

That's what I thought, too. The clothes are kind of stupid, but to each his own. The obsessive shopping, the almost orgasmic reaction to buying (forgotten a couple of days later when the clothes actually arrive), the icky sex stuff...

And while making fun of other people's appearance isn't my favorite thing to do, I think it's important to note that his feelings of sexual power and attractiveness are not actually grounded in anything. He's a schlubby mid 50s male who has spent a half million on clothes without going to the gym. He wants to project an image -- a "rocker" -- that hasn't been current in forty years. The fact that this has apparently all developed in the last three years is also disturbing.

A narcissist looks the same every day; he has a "look" with a defining characteristic: a certain haircut; a mustache; a type of clothing, a tatoo. He used these to create an identity in his mind that he will spend a lot of energy keeping up.

Consider the narcissist who wants his wife to wear only white, high heeled pumps. The narcissist wants this not because he himself likes white high heel pumps-- which he might-- but because the type of person he thinks he is would only be with the type of woman who wears white high heeled pumps. Or, in other terms, other people would expect someone like himself to be with a woman who wears those shoes. What he likes isn't the relevant factor, and certainly what she likes is irrelevant. What matters is that she (and her shoes) are accessories to him.

Never mind that the woman is obese, or 65, or the shoes out of style, or impractical-- the shoes represent something to him, and he is trying to reinforce his identity through that object.

Bissinger is short, pudgy, and somewhat pear-shaped; not great raw material to work with.

Men like Buzz are why the suit was invented in he first place; portly middle-aged guys look presentable in suits. They look like fools in the clothes Buzz fetishizes.
I RTFA for some reason. What a sad, sad man. I hope he overcomes.

He's a schlubby mid 50s male who has spent a half million on clothes without going to the gym.

This element surprised me a bit, in that I would think a guy with the issues Bissinger appears to have here might react in part to those feelings by serious dieting and a lot of working out, if for no other reason than to look better in the clothes.

I would think a guy with the issues Bissinger appears to have here might react in part to those feelings by serious dieting and a lot of working out, if for no other reason than to look better in the clothes.

That's why I think people are right to say he has a fetish or an addiction. It really is about the clothes. Looking good without purchasing new, expensive, leather Gucci clothes with a "rocker" theme doesn't appear to do anything for him.

This element surprised me a bit, in that I would think a guy with the issues Bissinger appears to have here might react in part to those feelings by serious dieting and a lot of working out, if for no other reason than to look better in the clothes.

Yeah, for a tiny fraction of what he's blown on ill-fitting clothes, he could have hired a trainer to work with him on a daily basis to reshape his body into something less... toad-like.

Yeah. The article really was a cry for help. He cancelled on a Today show interview to instead go to rehab, which makes me think his close friends and family sat him down. He had already admitted he had a problem, which is one of the biggest and hardest steps. I hope he's working with people who can help him. I think he's a bloviating jackass, but I know people who've suffered from gambling addiction, and ruined not only their own but their family's life because of it. And that's not to mention the friends I've had whose lives were wrecked by drugs.

he could have hired a trainer to work with him on a daily basis to reshape his body into something less... toad-like.

I am not a psychologist, but I would say the clothes were a cry for help. When they failed to attract enough attention he wrote the article.

That's why I think people are right to say he has a fetish or an addiction. It really is about the clothes. Looking good without purchasing new, expensive, leather Gucci clothes with a "rocker" theme doesn't appear to do anything for him.

Right, I think it's pretty clear from TFA that Bissinger's primary issue is confusion/insecurity about his gender/sexuality, not his appearance.